Vice President, Strategy & Operations
About The Position
The NAM Strategy & Operations team leads key strategic initiatives for the NAM region, providing analytics and insights to drive business results, monitoring risks, assisting with the articulation of market strategy and progress against it, supporting the Presidents of the US and CAN markets. The Vice President of Strategy & Operations is a multi-dimensional position focused on driving growth across the NAM Digital Partnerships and Fintech (DP&F) Sales teams, reporting to the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Operations for NAM. The role is responsible for driving growth by creating, assessing, and managing business opportunities and will have oversight of Strategy Execution, as well as manage high priority strategic initiatives for the DP&F segment. Additional responsibilities include leading a team of 3 high performing sales analysts, working across the NAM Executive team with other relevant functional leads on developing and assessing the region’s key DP&F strategic priorities. The role will focus on driving rigor around go-to-market strategies, analytic insights, acceptance deal strategies, and long-term regional strategies to capture opportunities and mitigate risks, and extend these best practices across the team. The Vice President of Strategy & Operations, DP&F will possess a solid understanding of the payments industry, digital partnership & fintech landscape, Mastercard’s analytic capabilities, and how to weave opportunities into the segment’s already ambitious objectives.
Requirements
- Passion for Mastercard and working in a fast-paced sales environment to drive results.
- Experience in leading teams (either direct or cross-functional) to drive data-backed recommendations, insights, and the creation and execution of strategies.
- Undergraduate degree with a focus in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics is preferred; attainment of a MBA, CFA, and/or CPA, is desirable.
- Proven ability to analyze, evaluate and make recommendations on strategic questions.
- Strategic – can understand ‘the big picture’ and exercise good business judgment.
- Problem solver – can structure, break down, and solve complex business issues.
- Analytical – can analyze and draw conclusions from large and/or complex data sources (both qualitative and quantitative data sets).
- Communicator – can synthesize ideas and thinking for sharing with others.
- Self-directed – can manage his/her own work in a fast-changing environment.
- Collaborative – able to partner with other functions/business leaders on complex problems and business issues.
- Intellectually curious – has a passion for business and enjoys solving problems.
- Action-oriented – enjoys translating recommendations into actions.
Nice To Haves
- Attainment of a MBA, CFA, and/or CPA, is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Lead DP&F analytical and strategic insights, as well as thought leadership to drive priority initiatives with quantitative and qualitative analysis and recommendations to support NAM DP&F and US Executive Leadership.
- Manage NAM DP&F performance across payment trends, regulatory changes and tracking to team targets.
- Drive Acceptance modeling for net new DP&F opportunities alongside the account teams and BD Finance teams.
- Engage cross-functional teams and be an analytical resource to other teams across NAM.
- Manage a team of high performing sales analysts in the US, focused on DP&F accounts. Support team with development, sharing best practices and identifying opportunities to drive value to the NAM organization.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- 16 weeks of new parent leave
- up to 20 days of bereavement leave
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time
- 5 personal days
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- deferred compensation for eligible roles
- fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- eligibility for tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
